Wait, please don't call me Emperor Zhaolie

Chapter 333: The New Man

Liu Bei glanced at Guo Jia's expression and saw that he seemed to be gritting his teeth.

Unable to resist curiosity, he asked, "Why is Fengxiao like this?"

This startled Guo Jia back to his senses, and he forced a smile, cupping his hands and saying: "I wanted to make merit by persuading the king to ascend the throne, but I didn't expect someone to beat me to it. It's inevitable that I have mixed emotions for a while, I hope the king won't blame me."

After a pause, he continued, "Zhuo County is the hometown of the Great King. It is normal for clansmen and neighbors to scramble to join him. It is no different from Jia. They just want to make achievements under the Great King to achieve their ambitions."

"At this moment, the general situation has been determined. The two Yuans in the north and south have been destroyed. The separatist princes have no intention of advancing. For example, Liu Biao of Jingzhou, Liu Zhang of Yizhou, Zhang Lu of Hanzhong, Li Jue, Guo Si, Zhang Ji of Guanzhong, Ma Teng, Han Sui, Duan Wei of Liangzhou, Gongsun Zan of Youzhou and Gongsun Du of Liaodong are all mediocre people."

"Among all the princes in the world, only Cao Mengde is an outstanding person with perseverance. Although he currently only occupies four counties in Jiangdong, he should not be underestimated."

"If he has the same intention as Wei Xiang and wants to use the natural barrier of the Yangtze River as a barrier to fight against the Han Dynasty with his navy, he may cause trouble for several years. Your Majesty must be on guard."

"Although Liu Jingsheng of Jingzhou abandoned Nanyang and retreated to Nanjun, he seemed foolish, but he was actually smart. Nanjun and Jiangxia have many water systems, which are more suitable for large ships to crisscross. The Han army can be defeated if they attack. Now Jiangling has the Ju and Zhang rivers, which irrigate thousands of fertile fields. There are abundant rivers, lakes, mountains and forests in the Yangtze and Han rivers. The people eat fish and rice, and make a living by fishing, hunting and logging. They have fruits, nuts, crabs and clams, so they always have enough food."

"Liu Bi, the King of Wu in the early Han Dynasty, had four counties and a territory of several thousand miles. He minted copper to make coins, boiled seawater to make salt, and took wood from Jiangling to make ships. He made his country rich and his people rich, and used this to prepare an army to rebel against the Han Dynasty."

"If Liu Jingsheng has ulterior motives and is fickle, and brazenly allies with Cao Mengde, just like Gongsun Shu and Wei Xiao did in the past, then we must be concerned."

"Everything is established by planning, and failure to plan leads to failure. If you plan before things happen, you will always have more than enough to deal with them. If you plan after things happen, you will always be insufficient to deal with them. I hope the king will make plans as soon as possible."

After saying this, Guo Jia bowed again. By the time he stood up, he had adjusted his mentality and his complexion had returned to normal.

Wu and Yue are good at boats, and the north is good at horse warfare. What's more, the Yangtze River has rough waves, sometimes fast and sometimes slow. The soldiers in the north will feel dizzy after boarding the Mengchong, fighting ships, and tower ships for a while, and they can only recruit soldiers locally.

Guo Jia had already thought about this problem when he was in Xuzhou. When Emperor Gaozu and Emperor Guangwu were pacifying the world, there were some stubborn people who could not understand the general trend and stood up to rebel.

Who knows if there are still such princes at this moment, especially the governors who occupy geographical advantages, such as Liu Zhang, Liu Biao, Cao Cao and others.

Seeing that the King of Han was surveying the land throughout the country and was bewitched by the powerful and gentry under his command, he got excited and wanted to use the advantage of the terrain to resist.

The role of the staff is to help the king plan and win, to be cautious and far-sighted, and to take the initiative to defeat the opponent, regardless of whether the opponent has any intentions or not, so as to make the opponent lose the ability to control a place.

Liu Bei didn't expect Guo Fengxiao to be so sincere in his pursuit of merit, and he felt a little amused.

He couldn't help but raise his hand and pointed at him and said with a smile: "What a good Guo Fengxiao, don't you know that even if you persuade others to take the throne, you can't go to Qilin Pavilion and Yuntai Pavilion?"

"Only by taking the world as one's own responsibility, working with the emperor to help the country, assisting the Han Dynasty, mending the world, taking the people of Qian as one's own concern, saving the world and loving the people, can one achieve success and become famous in the world, and this is to be praised and praised."

Liu Bei's words were very clear. These merits of persuading others to ascend the throne might be remembered in their hearts, but to him they were just ordinary. He valued governing with diligence, founding a base and starting a business together, and building a new Han Dynasty that had never appeared in history.

Like Emperor Xiaoxuan, he personally handled all affairs, trained his ministers, verified their names and facts, and took overall charge of all duties.

Unlike the previous Han Dynasty and later dynasties, the scholar-officials integrated civil and military skills, and riding, archery and swordsmanship were all part of the six arts of Confucianism, as was being familiar with the art of war.

He has a loyal and filial heart, but also advocates revenge.

At this time, the Han Dynasty was not as affected by the metaphysics of the Wei and Jin Dynasties as in history, and the ideology had not completely changed to pure talk. It still ruled the world with loyalty and filial piety. After two hundred years of Confucianism in the Xinmang and Eastern Han Dynasties, Confucianism and Legalism were deeply rooted in the bones. The Han Dynasty he rebuilt now was different from the early Han Dynasty, the later Han Dynasty, the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and the Tang Dynasty.

This Han dynasty was full of martial virtues, and the scholars valued loyalty, filial piety, and etiquette. They integrated the disputes between ancient and modern classics, were able to quote from classics, and knew how to apply them flexibly, and Confucian scholars could even draw their swords and chop people.

Combining the ideas of the two Han dynasties, he established a country by fighting against the powerful, equalizing land, and rewarding military merit. He also personally injected the spirit of doing what he said and the determination to leave no trouble for his descendants. I wonder where the Han Dynasty will lead in the end...

Nor do we know what impact it will have on the neighboring countries and the Xiongnu, Wuhuan, Xianbei, Qiang, and the Western Regions.

Liu Bei felt deeply moved, and his eyes seemed to see through the courtyard and see thousands of miles away.

He thought to himself: "Let's take it slow. Restoring the Han Dynasty is not something that can be done overnight. Fortunately, we can learn from the experience of later generations, which is enough to help the Han Dynasty move forward more steadily."

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At the same time that Liu Bei received the letters from the nobles of Zhuo County, they were not idle either. The head of the Liu family, who was a descendant of King Jing of Zhongshan in Zhuo County, invited the rest of the Liu family and nobles from other counties and towns to come to Zhuo County for discussions.

How should we welcome the King of Han and when should we persuade him to take the throne? After all, we must strike a balance. If we go too far, we will end up shooting ourselves in the foot.

The Lu family of Zhuo County, the Zu family of Qiu County, the Li family of Fanyang, the Yuan family of Gaoyang, the Xu family, the Suga family of Liwu, the Zhao family of Gu'an, the Huo family, and the uninvited Sun family of Xincheng, all gathered together and quarreled with each other.

Only the head of the Liu clan in Zhuo County looked at the people below with a smile, their faces flushed and necks thick because of the noise they made to welcome the King of Han, who was a descendant of King Jing of Zhongshan.

His old face was almost smiling, and he kept stroking his beard and nodding in agreement. He praised the other party for their thoughtful etiquette and the other party for their grand ceremony, thinking that the king would be delighted.

The descendants of King Shun of Guangyang and the clan leaders and patriarchs of the descendants of King Liu Fa of Changsha who were standing next to them felt so jealous that they kept swallowing their saliva.

I was eager to look at the other person, almost drooling, and I moved closer to express my envy.

The three families have lived together in Zhuo County for a long time. Why is it that the smoke is coming out of the tomb of Prince Jing of Zhongshan? Why can't it be the descendant of Prince Ding of Changsha, and then Emperor Guangwu? !

When the patriarch of the Changsha Dingwang lineage thought of this, he couldn't help but breathe faster and felt a dull pain in his chest.

Especially seeing a group of old guys from the Zhongshan Jingwang clan, who were smiling all day long until their faces wrinkled, I often took the opportunity to visit their clan and talk about the past of the Hanwang. Finally, I pretended to slap my thigh and sighed, "You said that our Zhongshan Jingwang has been in decline for hundreds of years, how come a hero like the Hanwang appeared and drew his sword to revive our Han country? Two hundred years have passed, and I didn't expect that the prophecy of the golden sword would come true in our lineage."

"If this time is too late, then good will come after bad, isn't this the will of heaven? The lineage of Prince Jing of Zhongshan will never fall behind Prince Ding of Changsha."

After saying that, he bowed, smiled, stood up, and left with his cane.

Only the Liu clan leader was left, who was smiling but actually very annoyed and wanted to tear the other person's face into pieces.

The patriarch of the Changsha Dingwang lineage often suffered from chest pain after being angered several times.

He tossed and turned every night, unable to sleep, and kept asking the heavens in his heart why there wasn't such a wise ruler after King Ding of Changsha, and then another Emperor Guangwu, so that the Liu family of Zhuo County could also enjoy the same treatment as the Liu family of Nanyang back then. How great that would have been.

(End of this chapter)